Winter Soldier:Vets give Dems a good piece of their mind-1/6

The really good part is toward the end.....

Memorial Day Special...Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress

War veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan came to Capitol Hill this month to testify before Congress and give an eyewitness account about the horrors of war. Like the Winter Soldier hearings in March, when more than 200 service members gathered for four days in Silver Spring, Maryland to give their eyewitness accounts of the injustices occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, "Winter Soldier on the Hill" was designed to drive home the human cost of the war and occupation—this time, to the very people in charge of doing something about it. [includes rush transcript--partial]

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[givebirthathome]

4:29 "Our orders *directly from command* was to roughen up all the guys up, they would always tell us that everybody was an enemy...the only way to keep them in place was to put as much fear as possible."

Who did they get this concept from, who set this policy?

[greatbroad]

MoveOn was thrown under the bus by Congress.

Congress was wrong; MoveOn was correct:

General David Petraeus DOES BETRAY US!